GEM One-Day Event Programme 2012
Learning with Archive Collections
In association with Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
10.00 – 16.00, Thursday 16 February 2012, Birmingham
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If you come to GEM’s Learning with Archive Collections seminar you will find out about the innovative learning and outreach work taking place using archive collections, and its potential to develop, empower and transform individuals and communities.
At the Learning with Archive Collections seminar you will have the opportunity to network with those working with archive collections in some way. Many of the ideas and issues under discussion, and approaches to learning, engagement and working practices, are clearly transferrable across the heritage sector and into the voluntary and community sectors.
Learning with Archive Collections aims to place archives learning and outreach on the map, and will provide the opportunity to share ideas, experiences, working practices, whilst setting a context in terms of challenges, and possible solutions and newer models for working. Also, the seminar provides an opportunity to bring together this community of practice.
Who should attend?
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Archive and other learning specialists who plan and deliver learning programmes in archives, libraries and museums, and other heritage organisations or sites with archive collections.
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Managers, perhaps without specialist learning expertise, responsible for delivering archive learning programmes.
Who is running the workshop?
The workshop is part of GEM’s professional development programme and is being led by Izzy Mohammed, GEM Trustee and an experienced practitioner in the archives learning sector.
What is the cost?
The seminar fee of £85 for GEM members (£105 for non-members) includes a light sandwich lunch, refreshments during the day, and all materials.
Non-members may join GEM at a reduced rate and take advantage of the member fee for this seminar and thus save £30!
Next steps
If you are interested in booking a place at this seminar, please download the booking form and return it to the GEM office.
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PROGRAMME
09.30 Registration & refreshments
10.00 Welcome and introductions
10.15 Children’s Lives Project
Birmingham Libraries and Archives
10.45 Great Escapes & National Library of Scotland Learning Zone
Beverley Casebow; education and outreach officer,
National Library of Scotland
11.15 Networking and refreshments
11.45 Learning from the challenges of providing outreach in a records
office
Isilda Almeida-Harvey, East Sussex Record Office
12.15 What do you get when you cross a museum outreach worker,
archivist and a librarian?
Herbert Museum
12.45 Lunch and networking
13.45 Outreach projects at the National Archives
National Archives
14.15 Community engagement; Archives skills and cataloguing training
Birmingham Libraries and Archives
14.45 Funding for archives outreach and learning projects
Heritage Lottery Fund
15.15 Discussion and closing remarks
15.45 Refreshments and evaluation
16.00 Close